The 1987 Encyclical of Pope John Paul II, Solicitudo Rei Socialis is a most remarkable statement on the problem of development, particularly in relation to the Third World. While following the tradition of the social ...

Since the short-lived interlude of impressive growth and prosperity
in the 1970s, the dual scourges of involuntary emigration and high
unemployment have returned to plague Irish society. Having
increasingly become part ...